1. Does anyone recall seeing that the "burner" phone was purchased a few months before the TB tragedy? I seem to recall that point. And it bothers me. What was the point of a "burner" phone a few months ago?
2. If it weren't for the tattoo & the phone would we even now have DM in custody? This is where the "getting away with it" falls apart. But did DM realize that? I don't think so. Thus the hubris of parking the trailer at mom's, the having of trails of evidence all over DMs properties. Think of Russell Williams leaving bootprints in snow and parking his truck where it could be seen, etc. We give far too much credit to the bad guys. And see how many of us it's taken to point out the trails left behind and question them.
3. We "sleuths" here are fairly rational people. How rational is it to "truckjack", to kill someone in the commission of said "truckjack", to burn the body instead of dumping it many miles away, to keep said truck locally instead of stashing it many miles away????
4. Detectives and criminologists of the profiler persuasion work many years to "get into" the minds of perpetrators, to see things as "perps" do. Even after decades of an amateur interest in criminal profiling and pathological behavior I cannot really go there. I can sometimes glimpse the twisted reasoning but....
5. I love logic. Analysis is one of my fortes. Good detective work is a combination of analysis/logic and a "nose" for pieces of the puzzle, so to speak. To ascribe logic to "perps" in the sense that we ordinarily use logic is, I think, giving more credit than is due. The "perp" may have what is to him/her an inner logic that defies what the rest of society could or would subscribe to. Think Paul Bernardo, Russell Williams, etc.
There. I've laid out some thoughts I've had, helped much by many of you. Thanks. All of it JMHO.
I too heard on a radio report that a burner phone was purchased or in use for the past 3 months. If so, I assume DM did not have a long game in play because that leaves too many called numbers to bring into question and close in on him had he been linked to burner phone. So if phone had been in use for 3 months he may have just decided to use this phone for wheeling and dealing and other shenanigans and was naive and thought burner phone meant he could not be traced...it will be interesting in a year or two or whenever if phone record details (weeks before and few days after) play a big part in the case. Why did you call this person, why was this company calling you, what did you discuss with so and so for 3 min at 4am on May 7th?? Just an example of course...